Rock and R&B Trivia, Part Trois

[bluenoter]

Which country's national orchestra is larger than its national army?

For whom did Dolly Parton pen the song "I Will Always Love You"?

I actually know that one. Porter Wagoner.

(For the first question, I'd have to guess Switzerland. Edit: But having Googled that one, no comment. )

[steve(thelil)]

Which country's national orchestra is larger than its national army?

For whom did Dolly Parton pen the song "I Will Always Love You"?

I actually know that one. Porter Wagoner.

(For the first question, I'd have to guess Switzerland. Edit: But having Googled that one, no comment. )

Porter Wagner's national orchestra is larger than his national army?...........................................Actually, I would have guessed that

[stereojack]

For whom did Dolly Parton pen the song "I Will Always Love You"?

I'm pretty sure it's Porter Wagoner.

[bluenoter]

I actually know that one. Porter Wagoner.

I'm pretty sure it's Porter Wagoner.

[stereojack]

Well, now I'm convinced it's Porter Wagoner!

[Runawayjazz]

Porter Wagoner is correct.
Monaco has a larger national orchestra than its national army.

For whom did Paul McCartney pen the song "Martha, My Dear"?
In The United States, there are more radio stations playing which genre of music than any other?

[bluenoter]

For whom did Paul McCartney pen the song "Martha, My Dear"?

In The United States, there are more radio stations playing which genre of music than any other?

His sheepdog. Too easy!
 

[Root Doctor]

In The United States, there are more radio stations playing which genre of music than any other?

Some tedious drivel the programmers claim is country music.

[steve(thelil)]

C'Mon folks. This is easy:

Other than The Blues Project and the Porter Wagoner National Army Orchestra, what artist from the Swinging 60's (which, as we all know, includes the early 70's) was named after an album he or she or some or all of them played on?



Hint: Not Senator Everett Dirkson

[steve(thelil)]

Top.

I'm trying to help this thread plateau with a range of hints.

[Pete C]

Band of Gypsies?

[bluenoter]

Hint: Not Senator Everett Dirkson

Senator Everett Dirksen?

[Runawayjazz]

Which song went from 97th place to number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart
in one week?

Name three songs that were recorded by two different musicians or groups which achieved #1 status on the Billboard charts? (Example: The song "Lady Marmalade" — Labelle (1975) and later, Christina Aguilera / Lil Kim / Mya / Pink (2001).

[Pete C]

Name three songs that were recorded by two different musicians or groups which achieved #1 status on the Billboard charts? (Example: The song "Lady Marmalade" — Labelle (1975) and later, Christina Aguilera / Lil Kim / Mya / Pink (2001).

I Say a Little Prayer?
I Heard it Through the Grapevine?
Ain't No Mountain High Enough?
Workin' My Way Back to You Babe?
Yesterday Once More?

[steve(thelil)]

Band of Gypsies? (artist named after an album he/she/they appeared on)

Might be correct, but not who I had in mind.

[steve(thelil)]

Senator Everett Dirksen?

Not him either. (Since I said it was NOT Senator Everett Dirkson, my spelling was correct. I had a different guy in mind than you did.)

[Runawayjazz]

Which song went from 97th place to number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart
in one week?

Name three songs that were recorded by two different musicians or groups which achieved #1 status on the Billboard charts? (Example: The song "Lady Marmalade" — Labelle (1975) and later, Christina Aguilera / Lil Kim / Mya / Pink (2001).

The answer to the second question:

Number-ones by two different artists
"Go Away Little Girl" — Steve Lawrence (1963) and Donny Osmond (1971)
"The Loco-Motion" — Little Eva (1962) and Grand Funk (1974)
"Please Mr. Postman" — The Marvelettes (1961) and The Carpenters (1975)
"Venus" — Shocking Blue (1970) and Bananarama (1986)
"Lean on Me" — Bill Withers (1972) and Club Nouveau (1987)
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" — The Supremes (1966) and Kim Wilde (1987)
"When a Man Loves a Woman" — Percy Sledge (1966) and Michael Bolton (1991)
"I'll Be There" — The Jackson 5 (1970) and Mariah Carey (1992)
"Lady Marmalade" — Labelle (1975) and Christina Aguilera / Lil Kim / Mya / Pink (2001)

And the answer to the first question? Bluenoter, shout it loudly.

[bluenoter]

Which song went from 97th place to number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart
in one week? . . .

And the answer to the first question? Bluenoter, shout it loudly.

But . . . but . . . I didn't say I knew the answer! I just Googled it up, though---"My Life Would Suck Without You" by Kelly Clarkson, in January 2009.

[steve(thelil)]

OK. Time to reveal the other answer to the question "What late 60's and or early 70's artist was named after an album that he/she/they/some of them appeared on?"

Mountain.

Mountain was the name of Leslie West's solo album before it was the name of the Power Trio.

[Runawayjazz]

Did Leslie West ever do an album with Michael Bolton or Kenny G?

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

What Grammy-winning hit song was inspired by and quotes freely from what work by Thomas Mann?

[bluenoter]

What Grammy-winning hit song was inspired by and quotes freely from what work by Thomas Mann?

I Googled up the answers; if you want me to reveal them, let me know. ("Inspired by," yes, but FWIW, I didn't find support for the "quotes freely from" part.)

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

FWIW, I didn't find support for the "quotes freely from" part.)

The lyrics of the song's chorus are taken directly from the story.

BIG HINT: Leiber-Stoller

[Root Doctor]

"Is That All There Is"?

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is


Wikipedia >>The song was inspired by the story "Disillusionment" by Thomas Mann, written in 1896. The narrator in Mann's story tells the same stories of when he was a child. (A dramatic adaptation was recorded by Erik Bauserfeld and Bernard Mayes and broadcast on KPFA in 1964.)

One difference between the story and the song is that the narrator in Mann's story finally has a sensation to feel free when he sees the sea for the first time and laments for a sea without a horizon. Most of the lyrics of the chorus are actually spoken in the story.<<

from the notes to the Starbucks Peggy Lee comp lent to me by a dancer yesterday: Dietrich and Streisand passed on the song, but Peggy Lee was immediately very enthusiastic. Arrangements by a then unknown young arranger named Randy Newman.

[Pete C]

It's a terrible song, but Dietrich would have been better. Streisand wouldn't be better for anything.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

I used to think it was a terrible song. Now I think it's a great mini-opera, like Leiber & Stoller's Little Egypt or Down In Mexico.

I like Peggy Lee a lot more than Pete, and I'm sure her version is as least as good as anything Dietrich would have done.

[steve(thelil)]

Why didn't Bluenoter sound her judge's buzzer about an "Is that All There Is" question being on the Rock and R&B trivia thread?

If there ever was a song that was neither Rock nor R&B, it's either "Is that All There Is" or "the Bilbao Song." (I could picture Dietrich singing either)

[Pete C]

I like Peggy Lee a lot more than Pete, and I'm sure her version is as least as good as anything Dietrich would have done.

No, I love Peggy Lee (e.g. the Basin Street East album), just not that song.

As for Steve tl's question, the fact that it's Lieber & Stoller qualifies it for this thread.

[bluenoter]

If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is


Wikipedia >>The song was inspired by the story "Disillusionment" by Thomas Mann, written in 1896. The narrator in Mann's story tells the same stories of when he was a child. (A dramatic adaptation was recorded by Erik Bauserfeld and Bernard Mayes and broadcast on KPFA in 1964.)

One difference between the story and the song is that the narrator in Mann's story finally has a sensation to feel free when he sees the sea for the first time and laments for a sea without a horizon. Most of the lyrics of the chorus are actually spoken in the story.<<

So says Wikipedia, but if you want to, have a look at this page about the song, starting with the section headed "Addendum (May 19, 1997)."

Why didn't Bluenoter sound her judge's buzzer about an "Is that All There Is" question being on the Rock and R&B trivia thread?

It crossed my mind, but

---the song was written by the legendary rock songwriting team Leiber & Stoller (as Pete said, I see)

---it's been covered by assorted rock, pop, and R&B artists (among others)

---Peggy Lee's recording of it won her the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance